The Queer Studies Program is an Interdisciplinary Minor that questions normative constructions of sexuality and gender. The Minor focuses on histories, contemporary experiences and community-based knowledge of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals, transgender people, inter- sexed people, queers and others who occupy non-heterosexist and gender non-normative positionalities. The Program explores how these subjects intersect and collide with national, ethnic, racial, gender, class and other identifications. It provides an academic home for those who wish to study the intellectual, cultural and material conditions that have shaped our current understandings of sexuality and gender variation, as well as for those who wish to generate new, resistant theories and practices.

Minor students must take QS 301, 302 and three elective courses for a letter grade. QS 490 can be taken for a letter grade or for credit/no credit for all students.

1. Upper Division Required Courses (9 units)

QS 301 Perspectives in Queer Studies (3)
QS 302 L.A. in Transit: Communities, Organizations and Politics (3)
QS 490 Queer Studies Senior Capstone (3)

2. Upper Division Electives (9 units)

AAS 455 Asian American Sexuality (3)
GWS 410 Sex, Lies and Media (3)
GWS 430 Global Sexualities (3)
ENGL 368 Gay Male Writers (3)
ENGL 369 Lesbian Writers (3)
PHIL 406 Philosophy of Sex, Gender, Sexuality (3)
QS 401A-Z Advanced Topics in Queer Studies (3)
QS 499 Queer Studies Independent Study (3)
SOC 452 Sociology of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgendered Communities (3)

Or other elective courses as approved by the Program Coordinator.

Total Units: 18